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After having been introduced to Android OS, having discussed views (the main building block of UIs) and layouts and added multimedia to our app, we are now ready for the next lesson in the “Android UI Design – Basics” course.

In this lesson, we will describe how we can use styles and themes. A theme is a set of styles and can be applied to the whole app or to a single Activity. This is an important aspect when developing an app because using styles and themes, we can brand our app and have an harmonious look.

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